sink

      English

      Etymology

      From Old English sincan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”). Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish synke, Swedish sjunka.

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      Verb

      sink (third-person singular simple present sinks, present participle sinking, simple past sank, past participle sunk or sunken)

      1. (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
      2. (transitive) To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
      3. (transitive) To push (something) into something.
        • The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg.
        • The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards.
      4. (intransitive, figuratively, of the human heart) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
        • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
          I tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great fear, and I looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heart sank within me. Beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of the mist, or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared, stood a tall, thin man, all in black.
        • 1915 Burgess, Thronton W., The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston; ch. XIX:
          Peter's heart sank. "Don't you think it is dreadful?" he asked.
      5. (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole
        • 2008, Edward Keating , The Joy of Ex: A Novel
          She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.
          “Have you been practising?” I ask my sister.
          “Some,” she says, “play again?”
          “One more.”
          My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.

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      Derived terms

      Translations

      descend into liquid, etc
      submerge
      cause (ship, etc) to sink
      push (something) into

      Noun

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      a bathroom sink (basin for holding water)

      sink (plural sinks)

      1. A basin used for holding water for washing
      2. A drain for carrying off wastewater
      3. (geology) A sinkhole
      4. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
      5. A heat sink
      6. A place that absorbs resources or energy
      7. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch
        Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink.
      8. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink
      9. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network

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      Antonyms

      Translations

      basin
      sinkhole — see sinkhole
      heat sink
      destination vertex

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      Estonian

      Noun

      sink (genitive singi, partitive sinki)

      1. ham

      Declension

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      Icelandic

      Noun

      sink

      1. zinc (element)


      This Icelandic entry was created from the translations listed at zinc. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see sink in the Icelandic Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) December 2008

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      Mauritian Creole

      Numeral

      sink

      1. Alternative spelling of senk.
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      Norwegian

      Noun

      sink

      1. zinc (element)


      This Norwegian entry was created from the translations listed at zinc. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see sink in the Norwegian Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) April 2008

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      West Frisian

      Verb

      sink

      1. first-person singular present tense of sinke
      2. imperative of sinke
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